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Elon Musk is expected to spend big to boost Republicans in the midterms this November, according to Trump officials briefed on the matter. The precise amount could change, but the officials expect Musk to spend around $100 million to $200 million with a focus on…
At least 431 people in 32 states have gotten sick from eating fresh jalapeño peppers contaminated with salmonella, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday. The likeliest source of the illnesses was jalapeños grown in Mexico and distributed by Coast Citrus Distributors, which…
The new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Erica Schwartz, said Wednesday the agency is prepared to handle a variety of disease outbreaks, despite internal concerns about drastic cuts to CDC staffing and programs. Schwartz made the remarks in an internal…
Total U.S. debt has topped $40 trillion for the first time, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday, drawing fresh warnings that a fiscal crisis is brewing as ballooning costs for social safety-net programs and interest payments far outstrip revenues held back by tax cuts. The…
Last week, I ventured a whopping 15 minutes from my house to see robots do some mind-boggling, jaw-dropping stuff. I visited the Cambridge, Massachusetts, offices of a startup called Generalist AI, where I watched robot arms perform simple chores like stacking cups, putting blocks into…
This $500 Counterfeit Rolex Is So Convincing, Even Rolex Didn’t Clock ItThe replica watch industry is in its “super clone” era. Following tips from murky internet forums, we bought three budget fakes that were good enough to pass as real—but ultimately disposable.Released on 08/19/2026Up NextPsychiatrist…
The family of a 63-year-old woman who disappeared in Las Vegas earlier this month while visiting a friend says someone posing as the woman has been calling and texting from her phone, demanding payment in Bitcoin. Alisa Goods, of Brooklyn, New York, vanished on Aug.…
Within four hours of Anthropic confirming that Claude models would globally embed invisible, machine-readable watermarks into any AI-generated content, developer Guillaume Meyer had published his override. His code to remove watermarks from Claude-generated text has since gone viral on GitHub, has been bookmarked more than…
Four Americans are dead following a helicopter crash in a remote area of northern Kenya, the U.S. State Department confirmed in a statement to NBC News on Wednesday. There were seven people on board when the aircraft crashed in the foothills of Mount Ololokwe in…
A tractor-trailer tipped over and spilled two tons of squid onto a Rhode Island roadway, prompting an hours-long cleanup of what local police dubbed the “Squidpocalypse of ‘26,” officials said Wednesday. The seafood smashup unfolded at about 9:27 a.m. Sunday in Narragansett, when the truck’s…